has rescheduled Monday’s game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots to next week, and reshuffled several other games on the league’s cluttered schedule to accommodate a rash of positive tests for the coronavirus. To fit in the Broncos-Patriots game, the league had to move seven other games involving four other teams — the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Chargers, the Miami Dolphins and the Jets. The cascade of rescheduled games reflected the league’s struggle to keep to its original 17-week regular season. wants to avoid having to add an 18th week, which would delay the start of the playoffs. Try to keep up:To squeeze in the Broncos-Patriots matchup next Sunday, the league said the Broncos-Dolphins game that was set for next weekend was moved to later in the schedule, Week 11.

Source: New York Times October 11, 2020 13:43 UTC